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- Title
Oil Exploration, Environmental Degradation, and Future Generations in the Niger Delta: Options for Enforcement of Intergenerational Rights and Sustainable Development Through Legal and Judicial Activism.
- Authors
FAGA, HEMEN PHILIP; UCHECHUKWU, UGURU
- Abstract
The Niger Delta region o f Nigeria has been inundated with oil pollution since the beginning o f oil exploitation in the 1960s. The pollution has led to environmental degradation, which has adversely affected the lives o f the inhabitants and ruined the local economy o f the region. This Article discusses the condition o f the Niger Delta environment and its inhabitants from the perspective o f intergenerational rights, equity, and justice. It analyzes the role o f domestic and foreign legal norms--both statutoiy and case law--in the quest to balance economic development with environmental sustainability, equity, and justice in Nigeria's petroleum sector. This Article argues that while Nigeria has enacted much legislation to protect the Niger Delta environment and its inhabitants from the impact o f petroleum exploitation, the legislation remained largely unenforced until the recent decisions of courts at the domestic, foreign, and subregional levels that moved to enforce the laws. It concludes that these judicial decisions and more recent legislation have unlocked new ways o f enforcing intergenerational rights and ensuring environmental justice and equity in the Niger Delta.
- Subjects
OIL spills; PETROLEUM prospecting; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; POLITICAL questions &; judicial power; SUSTAINABILITY
- Publication
Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation, 2019, Vol 34, p185
- ISSN
1049-0280
- Publication type
Article